Josh Brolin blasts 'Tillman's' R ratingEXCLUSIVE: Actor criticizes MPAA's ruling on film
By Alex Ben Block
Aug 13, 2010, 03:12 PM ET
The decision to slap an R rating on documentary " The Tillman Story" had its narrator, Josh Brolin, steaming at its Los Angeles premiere on Thursday evening.
"It seems like the profanity in this movie lends to the profundity of the movie in celebrating who these people were," Brolin told THR.
Brolin added that what upsets him was the unfairness of the Motion Picture Association of America system, whose ruling was sustained on appeal earlier in the day. He said he can take his two children “to see exploding head and blood and guts” at other films and “they tell me that's O.K.”However, the use of the word “f**k” in the documentary, which tells the story of Tillman, an All-American football player who gave it all up to join the Army only to be killed by his fellow soldiers, is not acceptable for young adults.
“It doesn't seem very balanced to me,” continued Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin, who was also on hand at the premiere.
The documentary depicts the Tillman family as caring people, but also a family that used and tolerated a lot of what Tillman's courageous mother called “swear words.” His brother used the F word in front of family friends and dignitaries at his funeral.
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And Tillman himself, as he was being fired on by his own fellow soldiers, used it in his final breath, saying “I'm Pat f**king Tillman,” which is repeated several times in the documentary. Read more
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